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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Mar 2, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 9.

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News and Notes

By A. J. S. B.

Accompanying his January report of our foreign magazines published at College View, Neb., Brother F. F. Byington, manager of the International Publishing Association, says: “We make a pretty good showing this month, inasmuch as our subscription lists are being mailed.” He encloses the following interesting references to our Swedish magazine, Tidens Tecken:—
“I have just read a copy of your magazine. It does contain so much truth. Yes, all that I can find in it is truth. I enclose thirty cents for three copies to be sent to three of my friends.”
“Please send me 100 copies of your last issue. It is such a good number. It ought to be in every Swedish home.”
“I find that the last magazine sells quite rapidly. I was out a while this morning, and sold twenty-five copies. At this rate I shall have to send for more.”
Brother Charles Lake, of the Pacific Press periodical department, writes: “Our single list is on the increase. A number of new agents are taking hold of the sale of the Signs Monthly. A number of letters have been received from our friends in the field during the past two weeks, assuring us of the fact that they are noticing the improvement in the recent issues of the magazine. Good as the January and February numbers are, the March issue will surpass them in every way.” He passes on the following interesting incidents:—
From a brother just beginning this work: “Don’t you think I am doing fine? One day last week I sold seventy-four copies of the Signs Monthly in one of the large buildings in Pittsburg. When I told one gentleman that it was a Seventh-day Adventist magazine, he took it and gave me fifty cents. The people like to buy our literature. Enclosed find draft for four dollars for 100 more copies.”
Brother D. W. Reavis, manager of the Review and Herald periodical department, reports many incidents of more than ordinary interest, from which we select only a few:—
“Thursday I sold sixty copies of Liberty in three and one-half hours, $3.60 profit. Yesterday I sold eighty-six copies in seven hours, $5.16 profit. Have just ordered 400 more copies. You know I recently ordered 850 magazines.”
“One student in South Lancaster Academy who ordered 700 copies of Liberty to sell during the holiday vacation week, reports having sold fifty copies in one hour, on Monday, December 26. This sister’s profit on that hour’s work amounted to $3,—more than many a man will earn in a whole day, especially at this time of the year. “
“I received the fifty copies of Life and Health to-day, and am well pleased with this number. I have been selling this magazine for over one year, with the Signs Monthly. I go over the same territory every month. By so doing I have regular customers.”
From a busy mother who has as many cares as the average home furnishes, yet who finds time to do something to help circulate literature containing the message: “My time is pretty well taken up with my cares at home, but I will try to sell twenty copies of Life and Health and thirteen copies of the Watchman each month for a year. I am much interested in this work, and although I sometimes find it a little hard to begin, I usually find it just as hard to stop. I can devote only a few hours once in a while to this work. I think those who have an opportunity to engage in it ought to do so soon; for the time is short.”
“Gentlemen: To-day I picked up a fragment of your magazine Life and Health, dated April, 1909. It was the best little magazine of the kind I ever saw. If still publishing it, kindly send me a copy. If it equals the part of the copy I now have, I want it.”
From a young girl who earned her scholarship last year by selling our magazines: “I enjoyed selling my papers very much, and would like to take that many every month, but shall not have time while at school. During the past year I have sold about thirty-five hundred copies of Life and Health and the Signs Monthly.”
From one of our experienced workers who sells both books and papers: “During the year 1910 I sold 2,657 magazines. Have had many rich experiences, and many blessings. The magazines and small books, or papers, bring a man face to face and heart to heart with all classes. I have said many times, ‘This is the most blessed work in existence.’ I have been in it now for nearly thirty years, and it is as precious, and even more joyful to me now than when I first began. The Protestant Magazine is attracting considerable attention nowadays. It is real easy to sell. I was recently in a house where there were some women visiting, and one of them, a Protestant, picked up a package of my magazines and read off the names. Among others was a copy of the Protestant. A Catholic lady then arose, and said, ‘O, is that the Protestant Magazine? Has he got two? I want them.’ To-day I sold a copy of the Protestant Magazine to a fine-looking man on the street. I said to him, ‘I suppose you are a Protestant.’ He replied, ‘No,’ explaining that he was a Roman Catholic. So you see Catholics as well as Protestants are interested in this magazine.”
The following was received from a member of the faculty of — Seminary, a Lutheran educational institution: “Dear Sirs: A member of our faculty lent me a copy of your Protestant Magazine. I read the magazine, and was very much pleased with it. I subscribe herewith for the said magazine, beginning with the January number.”
It will be remembered that the Review and Herald Publishing Association issues seven periodicals, four of which are ten-cent magazines. We shall aim in these notes from month to month to give all our ten-cent magazines an opportunity to speak for themselves of the work they are accomplishing. With the advent of the new Temperance number of the Youth’s Instructor we expect that thousands of our young people and others will engage in its sale, who are not now selling any of the magazines. Let every one improve his talents. We are told that “the Lord measures with exactness every possibility for service. . . . We shall be judged according to what we ought to have done.”—“Christ’s Object Lessons,” page 263. Let our motto be, “Something for Each One to Do.” Write to your conference tract society to-day for samples of the ten-cent magazines, and for terms to agents.
A. J. S. B.